Amazed at comments . . .

[Preachrman]

Out of 16 public comments for that story, only 2 didn't give 100%. One of them was 75% and the other was 0% made of course by Anonymous.

 

[Aussie_Teacher]

Actually your comments are still there. Go to the bottom and click on read all user comments, go to the bottom of that page and you will notice there is a second page. You are at the bottom of that one since you are the first to comment.

Is obvious that I'm no Rocket Scientist, I can't even figure out the stories and where all the comments are Thanks for the help

 

[zeb1094]

Crap?

 

[lindiana]

Ignore Ignore Ignore

I get so many negative comments, especially on my incest stories because they contain SURPRISE incest...ummm, how dumb can some readers be?

And on my poems, there is someone who gives me a 1 every time, no matter what it is, so I always end up with no higher of a rating than 3.5.

I used to let the comments and the votes bother me but I don't anymore.
Especially with the poetry since I have had poems accepted for hard-paper publication which means some editors think I have talent. Now I just leave the negative comments, especially the signed ones, so everyone can read them and have a good laugh that they are complaining that my stories in the incest category contain incest. Now THAT is funny.

 

[silverwhisper]

something that i wonder at times: what if you had to login to vote?

ed

 

[zeb1094]

something that i wonder at times: what if you had to login to vote?

ed

They wouldn't do it. I had one anon, we were posting comments back and forth, he final went and created an id on aol (anon@aol.com) to send me a private email. I respond to that address, but never head from him again except in comments on my stories. There are some readers who post with an id but if you check they haven't written anything and some don't let you post anon messages.

Oh well, I'm not hear because I think I'm going to win any prizes, I just like to write. If someone, just one person likes what I write about then I'm satisfied.

 

[silverwhisper]

[sigh]

i write b/c i enjoy it too, but i guess i'll have to resign myself to knowing that no LW story is ever gonna win an award... :>

ed

 

[CanadianTease]

Stories are what they are, as are comments. Taking offense is a waste of energy, for either a reader or a writer.

 

[Guest]

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[Aussie_Teacher]

Another thought to ponder

It just simply amazes me that instead of critiquing my writing style or lack there of, most anon comments are a social commentary on the content of the story. They don't say if the story was told well or if the writing style was easy to read.

Recently I have posted 'favourable' comments on a few stories and a few days later I receive an e-mail (via Literorica) thanking me for my comments etc., and they send it signed 'Anon'!!!!!!! God, it is obvious who it was from, so why not just say so?

 

[Aussie_Teacher]

I posted to 'Loving Wives'

when I could have posted to a number of other parts. Yes, got a great reception. The first day got 8 posts and only 2 had a name and the rest were 'Anon'. One of the 2 with names 'bagged' the story for being in that category, but I thanked him regardless, as well as explain why I put it there. 1) to see just how many would 'bag' it. 2) as I do have intentons for the story to continue through different stages as it builds. The other post with a name 'went off' at the Anons etc then made a nice comment on the story for which I thanked him. The rest of the Anons were not just 'bagging me' but most were down right rude. Should I delete them? Should I turn off voting? Should I give up writing as this is the first story of 15 that opened with a 2.6? Nah, let the good people see what the arseholes are writing, and maybe when enough peple complain about the "Nasty Anons' someone will change the rules to posting in the story section. I posted my own explanaton there as well (and did not vote, as it would be a waste of time ) and I can only hope they will 'take the hint' and comment on the story, not the title or subject.

 

[Tentacle_Beast]

I agree that comments should not be allowed to be 'anon'. If you can't take responsibility for the comments you wish to post, and are afraid that the person you are commenting on will be too immature to accept good or bad comments, then you just shouldn't post at all. As far as I can see, the benefits of having anonymous posting of comments do not outweigh the unfavourable consequences. In fact, it should be viewed like posting other submissions: it has to be your own words, and you have to be willing to take full credit for them. Is that not fair, and does it not make sense? Maybe I'm not seeing something, but I think a group complaint with this line of thinking as its main point should be formally made to the site admins.

 

[lindiana]

something that i wonder at times: what if you had to login to vote?

ed

I do know one thing though: they track votes by ISP. So you can only vote once.
And if you are like me and you accidentally vote twice on your own story, you lose your vote. That is why I have one story with absolutely no votes .

It is one of my reviews so that is why.

 

[kbate]

My only response to authors complaining of the comments is that as a reader I will comment as I feel fit, just as you wrote as you felt fit.

If I post a comment on the public board, I always log in to do so, I WANT the author to know it was me who said their story sucked. I don't care if they go back for revenge and vote my own stories down, it simply isn't that important.

I assume that an author posting on this board is looking for complete review of their story, content, grammar, punctuation and linguistics. If you don't want the whole bit, turn off comments and don't waste my time.

My own stories are drivel, written in fits of sickness and woe but I still respect every reader's right to tell me exactly that or to be wrong and tell me they are good.

 

[lindiana]

My only response to authors complaining of the comments is that as a reader I will comment as I feel fit, just as you wrote as you felt fit.

If I post a comment on the public board, I always log in to do so, I WANT the author to know it was me who said their story sucked. I don't care if they go back for revenge and vote my own stories down, it simply isn't that important.

I assume that an author posting on this board is looking for complete review of their story, content, grammar, punctuation and linguistics. If you don't want the whole bit, turn off comments and don't waste my time.

My own stories are drivel, written in fits of sickness and woe but I still respect every reader's right to tell me exactly that or to be wrong and tell me they are good.

Oh believe me, kbate, I do appreciate constructive feedback. I actually sent a thank you note to someone who once showed me one simple word change on one of my poems that turned it from lackluster to semi-brilliant.

It is people who post "the guy is a pig in this story" or "this story should have been longer" that I tend to ignore. You see, I wanted the guy to be a pig and I wanted the story short. I hate long stories. I never read them on literotica myself. So yes, most of my stories are 'wham, bam, thank you ma'am' because I want to get on, get it on and get off in that order. I don't need a lot of icing, just give me the cake!

 

[spyro1123]

Holy crap! What a genius idea! I'm gonna do it with my already existant, but not used alt..****!!!

ooo ooo please post the comments somewere!!!!

 

[Quillman]

I'm late on this one ....

...but will add my own experiences having posted stories in different categories. Those in 'loving wives', by myself and other authors, frequently describe acts of infedility. perhaps the category should have a sub set for this? It is noticeable that these stories seem to attract quite vitriolic comments. Quite why they are read if so upsetting I will leave to the acolytes of Dr Freud, as the reader clearly gets some pleasure from so doing! I feel some sympathy for new writers who post in this category only to find it is their personality that is 'slated' rather than any comment on the story structure and style.

 

[MnRider]

My only response to authors complaining of the comments is that as a reader I will comment as I feel fit, just as you wrote as you felt fit.

If I post a comment on the public board, I always log in to do so, I WANT the author to know it was me who said their story sucked. I don't care if they go back for revenge and vote my own stories down, it simply isn't that important.

I assume that an author posting on this board is looking for complete review of their story, content, grammar, punctuation and linguistics. If you don't want the whole bit, turn off comments and don't waste my time.

My own stories are drivel, written in fits of sickness and woe but I still respect every reader's right to tell me exactly that or to be wrong and tell me they are good.

I found Literotica while looking for more information on writing--go figure--you search for how to write "erotic stories" and Lit comes up!

Two things drew me to submit my stuff: The volunteer editors and the feedback.
The editors, to my surprise, are fantastic!! I'm not sure what I expected but I found much more.

The few people I've shown my stories to like them, but they're friends and would say they liked a real dud if I wrote it. So the feedback was and is very important to me (so far it was been very kind). I love getting any, anonymous or not, especially the people who took the time to write an Email telling me what I did right and wrong. (Biggest wrong, "I/you" second person story. Biggest right, good sex writing.)

I guess until I get brave and try a loving wife story... I'm very happy here!!
If they would just put up my second story!! [laughing] Don't submit a non-contest story a couple of days before a contest ends!!

 

[exiledmaster]

I found this thread fascinating, not least because I get so few comments. A story can attract 20,000 plus views, but only 52 votes and two comments (this one here... )

I did get one comment asking me why a story took so long to follow the previous one in a chain; the commentator said 'you wear thin the patience of your faithful readers when you post a chapter every two years.' (The story's here if there isn't a rule about self promotion in the name of dialogue, lol..)
Now, I'd love to know who that was. I write to communicate with an audience, and I like the idea I can please people, or turn them on.... That stories had two comments out of 3317 views... I can't quite figure it out, but having had a whinge about it in others I suppose I must now resolve to comment on every story I read...

 

[zeb1094]

I found this thread fascinating, not least because I get so few comments. A story can attract 20,000 plus views, but only 52 votes and two comments (this one here... )

I did get one comment asking me why a story took so long to follow the previous one in a chain; the commentator said 'you wear thin the patience of your faithful readers when you post a chapter every two years.' (The story's here if there isn't a rule about self promotion in the name of dialogue, lol..)
Now, I'd love to know who that was. I write to communicate with an audience, and I like the idea I can please people, or turn them on.... That stories had two comments out of 3317 views... I can't quite figure it out, but having had a whinge about it in others I suppose I must now resolve to comment on every story I read...

You want comments, write a story for Loving Wives where the wife cheats on the husband, or the husband lets her have sex with whomever she wants and maybe he joins her and her lovers. That will surely generate a lot of comments from the 'Your a wimp husband' faction.

 

[exiledmaster]

You want comments, write a story for Loving Wives where the wife cheats on the husband, or the husband lets her have sex with whomever she wants and maybe he joins her and her lovers. That will surely generate a lot of comments from the 'Your a wimp husband' faction.

I sort of did that here, but deliberately didn't put it in the Loving Wives section because there are two genres I never have got to grips with; loving wives / cuckoldry, and the whole TV thing.
It probably wouldn't have rung the same bells as the stories you're talking about it because I wrote it from the view point of the lucky guy I suppose...
As for the classic TV stories I can get to grips with cross dressing as a fact, but the language of so many TV stories and the setups are so cliched it's almost as if the authors are moving to a beat I don't hear.

 

[BrentT]

>It just simply amazes me that instead of critiquing my writing style or lack there of, most anon comments are a social commentary on the content of the story. They don't say if the story was told well or if the writing style was easy to read.

Maybe it's because you delete them?

I tried to read your story but couldn't get past the grammatical errors - there were two bad ones in each of the first two sentences. Yesterday I posted a brief critique and indicated why I gave up reading your story.

You very promptly deleted my critique.

I'm going to quote you:

"If you have nothing nice or constructive to say, don't say anything at all."

If you really believe that, then I completely understand why you deleted the only response that called attention to your poor syntax, mangled tenses, etc. etc.

But why post asking for feedback in the first place?

Is it because in your quest to gain acceptance you expect to encounter only
nodding, kindly, accepting, unquestioning souls who will praise whatever you do and ignore your lousy English?

Tell you what, I'll leave you to them.

 

[LittleTom]

Loving Wives comments

Hi Zeb

Over the past little while I've done my first posting in that category and have been stunned by the inanity of the comments. Its almost put me off posting anything further, which is what I suspect they're after.

What really stunned me was that almost all of the negative posts seemed to assume the story was real life. It is just a story, a fantasy, and a fairly improbable one at that. The attempt was to take a hacney'd genre and try to get into the minds of one of the protagonists.

I knew in posting it, the story wouldn't be for everyone's taste, but the pure vitriol is really quite amazing.

This has been an interesting thread for me. A general question though, if I had posted in another genre, like "reluctant" or "bdsm" do you think the comments would have been less negative?

 

[SadieRose]

Constructive Crit

I suppose that whenever anyone puts up a story to be read in any forum one automatically lays oneself open to brickbats. Everyone's a Critic, as some wag once said (I'm sure someone clever on this site will tell me who) and the only way to progress is to accept the fact and get one with it.

I write because it's hardwired into my system, because I like to tell tall tales (mostly about gorgeous men getting banged stupid by other guys!! *LOL*) and because it makes me happy if occasionally my stories make other ppl happy.

I do agree though with the person making the earlier comment about people who criticise what a story is about rather than the actual writing, instead of just not reading it, I mean, if a story is in Gay Male and you're not into Gay Sex intelligence says don't go there, huh? My favourite was the person who e-mailed me the words *die faggot* 67 times (57 of them spelt incorrectly). How we rolled about laughing at that sad fuck!

One sweetie sent food for thought after a story I posted involving two chinese businessmen and a rent boy, noting that his girlfriend had once had a chinaman and "weren't they supposed to have small dicks?" I always figured that there are chinese out there with huge whangs just as there are big black guys with tiny wieners but if anyone can enlighten me further, I'd be interested to know! *chuckles*

Keep on scribbling guys and don't take small mindedness to heart!

*kisses*
Sadie

 

[Porlock]

It just simply amazes me that instead of critiquing my writing style or lack there of, most anon comments are a social commentary on the content of the story. They don't say if the story was told well or if the writing style was easy to read.

I just don't understand, after all this is an adult erotic literature site to which anyone can post a story. What's with the social commentary?

If you're talking about Loving Wives stories, as quite a few others here are suggesting, don't feel alone. It's a very well-known phenomenon, so much so that I wrote something about it in the Essays/Review category. If interested, you can find it at http://www.literotica.com/s/about-loving-loving-wives